Sentences with phrase «religious boarding school»

The girl had been educated at home and at a private religious boarding school.

Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, Schepisi was a key figure in the renaissance of the Australian film industry, making the acclaimed features The Devil's Playground (1976), a semi-autobiographical account of adolescent life in a religious boarding school, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), based on Thomas Keneally's novel.

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It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

Steve, Here in Texas, the religious right has gotten hold of the school board and are trying to re-write history in an anti-secular manner.

It matters when a group of them are standing up at a school board meeting trying to force their religious agenda into our science classes and threatening legal action!

My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

What is being done is evidently a very complex thing for these many rooms of the parish house or religious education building, are designed for a great number of meetings besides those of Sunday School classes and official boards.

Many of us have religious holidays that are not recognized by the school boards across America.

Whatever works best, because the worst thing that will happen is we'll see an erosion of the public school system as each religious sect starts its own school board (and there goes integration).

Read books that didn't come from the Texas School Board and you'll see that the consti.tution has separation of church and state — because of the religious intolerance the early settlers has experienced in Europe.

Why does one need city representation or school boards to justify how and in what capacity young Muslims can practice their religious observances?

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

In the decades from the 1880s until World War I such schools rapidly distanced themselves from most substantive connections with their church or religious heritages, dropping courses with explicit theological or biblical reference and laicizing their boards, faculties, and administrations.

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinicreligious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of RabbinicReligious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

The situation is so bad that even the Bishop of Oxford John Pritchard, Chair of the Church of England General Synod's Board of Education, called last year for a limit of 10 % religious selection in Church schools.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

The board is made up mostly of Orthodox men whose children attend private religious schools.

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

In a statement the REC reaffirmed its policy, «that Religious Education in schools and colleges should include the study of non-religious worldviews alongside religious traditions» and REC Chair Dr Joyce Miller added, «The REC Board has agreed unanimously that the optional systematic study of a non-religious worldview should be introduced at GCReligious Education in schools and colleges should include the study of non-religious worldviews alongside religious traditions» and REC Chair Dr Joyce Miller added, «The REC Board has agreed unanimously that the optional systematic study of a non-religious worldview should be introduced at GCreligious worldviews alongside religious traditions» and REC Chair Dr Joyce Miller added, «The REC Board has agreed unanimously that the optional systematic study of a non-religious worldview should be introduced at GCreligious traditions» and REC Chair Dr Joyce Miller added, «The REC Board has agreed unanimously that the optional systematic study of a non-religious worldview should be introduced at GCreligious worldview should be introduced at GCSE level.

Ellen Jaffee, a Democratic Assembly member from Rockland County who is one of the bill's lead sponsors, said that installing a monitor to oversee the school board «has nothing to do with who they are in terms of their culture or religious background.»

In August, almost 200 parents filed suit to remove five Orthodox members of the school board, claiming that the board materially - assisted private religious schools by providing them with books and programs.

Do not take my word for it; read the opinion issued in the 2005 Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover School Board case, which held that «intelligent design is not science and «can not uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.»»

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

«Neither the school board or its employees have promoted any religious belief in any academic setting.

It has to do with «teamwork,» one of the major highways to heaven, if we stick to the religious theme here, according to school board association literature.

For instance, I serve on the board of a religious private school that must raise half of its budget, despite a price tag in the $ 13,000 - a-year range for high school.

The Los Angeles school board has voted to allow schools in that district to use a social - studies textbook series that was criticized by a wide range of ethnic and religious groups.

These advantages also apply in urban settings, where the unions have lots of potential competitors: business, community, ethnic, and religious groups that could (and sometimes do) get involved in school - board elections.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department last week accused the Philadelphia school board and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of violating the religious rights of teachers by barring them from wearing religious garb while on the job.

Michael Turner, director of the JCQ, which represents exam boards, assured it had considered comments from a wide range of figures from religious groups, schools and colleges before making the decision.

According to the report, board documents show that the cost of serving religious - school pupils has risen dramatically in recent years, to $ 15 million to $ 20 million annually,...

Evidence of consent will also be required from the school's trust / foundation and from the diocesan board / religious authority where appropriate.

The New York City Board of Education «effectively robs from public - school children» to provide Chapter 1 remedial services to students from religious schools, an advocacy group for public education has charged.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

The school board's first priority is not the public schools, but busing programs for the religious schools.

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The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

This was first established by the U.S. Supreme Court 50 years ago in Tinker v. De Moines Independent Community School District and even before then in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (which first recognized the First Amendment rights of students by declaring that they couldn't be forced by districts to recite the Pledge of Allegiance against their religious and social consciences).

Urban school boards partner with religious organizations, charities, civic groups, and local government agencies to rally community resources to meet the needs of students and their families.

The vitriol got so bad that African American religious leaders and local NAACP officials intervened at school board meetings on the superintendent's behalf — and it has helped.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that an arrangement between a county board of education and a religious college, under which the college was paid tuition fees and building maintenance fees for the education of county high school students out of public school funds, violated Kentucky's Blaine Amendment.

The New Jersey Supreme Court held that state could allow religious groups who fully reimbursed school boards for related out - of - pocket expenses to use school facilities on a temporary basis for religious services without violating the federal or New Jersey constitutions.

Before that happened, the State Board of Education filed a declaratory judgment action in Wake County Superior Court against private schools, saying that religious schools didn't have a first amendment issue.

But, we also will be the first line of defense against any effort to divert federal education funding to private and religious schools, or to promote creation of charter schools not subject to authorization and oversight by school boards.

The Governor also vetoed the parent savings account bill, which would allow state funds to go to parents for expenses related to private, religious or homeschool education and legislation calling for creation of a State Virtual School (with state school bSchool (with state school bschool board).

Thomas J. Gentzel, National School Boards Association, Executive Director, today joined moderator Charles Haynes, from the Religious Freedom Center, Newseum Institute, and panelists Michelle Boorstein, Religion Reporter, The Washington Post; Stella Edwards, Legislative Committee Chair, National Parent - Teacher Association; Murali Balaji, Director, Education and Curriculum Reform for the Hindu American Foundation; and David Kulp, senior at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School; at the National High School Journalism Convention in Washington.

Independent schools may have a religious affiliation, and may include religious studies as part of the school's philosophy, but they are governed by an independent board of trustees and not a larger religious organization.

If an independent school wishes to change an aspect of its operations, such as eliminating religious studies, they only need the approval of their board of trustees and not a governing religious institution.